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It’s that time of year again! Everybody get excited, because it’s tax time! Okay, there’s really no way to excite you about it, unless you know that you’re getting a tax return. But even then, all you did was give the government an interest free loan for the year.

There is a great article in Kiplinger’s magazine for guiding young people that are new to taxes. Read it and pay attention to the deductions and credits that you may be elible for.

Everyone talks about the real estate bubble like it is a real, living human being. They talk about it like this “bubble” has a mind of its own. When I look at the statistics, it looks like things are not going to “pop”, they are just going to settle down. Here are some statistics to substantiate that things are definitely settling down.

Financial periodicals and magazines love to run articles that try to diagnose a family’s financial problems. They will start off by listing the assets and liabilities of the family, and then they turn to a certified financial planner (that sounds so official when you read it) to remedy the situation. The problem is that they never target the main problem which is that the family has $15,000 in credit debt and a $30,000 home equity loan. Their poor portfolio mix is always more important than the fact that they have $50,000 in consumer debt. This is absurd!

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